The move to surface mining began in the 1950s, according to experts, and in Ohio ... is reclaimed, it’s more environmentally sound,” Seitz said. News: Clean-up fund for abandoned coal mines ...

With rolling hills, forests and hiking trails, Southeast Ohio is a haven ... from abandoned coal mines. These streams are contaminated with a toxic sludge known as acid mine drainage (AMD ...

In the heart of Appalachia, where coal mining has shaped both the land and the lives of its people, a movement is taking root ...

An Ohio coal miner has died when the ground beneath the drill he was positioning failed, causing the drill to fall off the highwall, according to the final report from the Mine Safety and Health ...

By Elena Shao Photographs by Maddie McGarvey WEST LAFAYETTE, Ohio — Michael French ... trees back onto Appalachia’s former coal mines. Decades of mining, which have contributed to global ...

The area is reclaimed coal mining land bordered by County Road 7 and 123 and Township Roads 123 and 137. Brad Janssen of the MWCD said they are looking to close gaps for other recreation land they ...

Now covered in moss, these concrete remnants once stood outside the entrance to a mine in Athens ... Between 1800 and 1948, Ohio miners harvested more than two billion tons of coal.

Pretty soon, they’ll be coming to Ohio, too — unless ... executive orders to revive the coal industry — keeping aging coal plants online, accelerating mining leases on federal lands and ...

Peabody Energy and RWE Clean Energy hope the projects on reclaimed mine land will generate 5.5 gigawatts of solar and battery storage all together. A coal producer and renewable energy company ...